The Senate’s soon-to-be top Democrat told labor leaders Thursday that the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal at the center of President Obama’s “pivot” to strengthen ties with key Asian allies, will not be ratified by Congress.

That remark from Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is expected to be the incoming Senate minority leader, came as good news to the AFL-CIO Executive Council, which met Thursday in Washington. Schumer relayed statements that Republican congressional leaders had made to him, according to an aide who confirmed the remarks.

Obama’s signature global trade deal had been on life support for months as both Democrats and Republicans campaigned against unfair trade policies ahead of the Nov. 8 election. And Donald Trump’s triumph in the presidential race cemented its fate.

“There is no way to fix the TPP,” Trump said in a June economic address. “We need bilateral trade deals. We do not need to enter into another massive international agreement that ties us up and binds us down.”

Governor Greg Abbott today delivered the keynote address at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Annual Policy Orientation where he unveiled his Texas Plan to restore the Rule of Law and return the Constitution to its intended purpose. In his plan, Governor Abbott offers nine constitutional amendments to rein in the federal government and restore the balance of power between the States and the United States. The Governor proposes achieving the constitutional amendments through a Convention Of States.

“The increasingly frequent departures from Constitutional principles are destroying the Rule of Law foundation on which this country was built,” said Governor Abbott. “We
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Investigators are broadening their DNA searches beyond government databases and demanding genetic information from companies that do ancestry research for their customers.

Two major companies that research family lineage for fees around $200 say that over the last two years, they have received law enforcement demands for individual's genetic information stored in their DNA databases.

Ancestry.com and competitor 23andme report a total of five requests from law agencies for the genetic material of six individuals in their growing databases of hundreds of thousands. Ancestry.com turned over one person's data for an investigation into the murder and
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One of the top White House advisers to president Richard Nixon admitted the 'War of Drugs' was meant to crush anti-war protesters and black people a decades-old interview has revealed.

John Ehrlichman, who served as President Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief, described the sinister use of Nixon's controversial policy in 1994.

Dan Baum, the journalist who originally interviewed Ehrlichman, revisited the admission in a new article for Harper's magazine.

'You want to know what this was really all about,' Ehrlichman said in the interview after Baum asked him about Nixon's harsh anti-drug policies.

'The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying.

'We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

'We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

'Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did,' Ehrlichman said in the interview.

Fatal shooting of Oregon militia spokesman was JUSTIFIED, prosecutor rules two months after standoff's climactic end

By Reuters

Published: 15:07 EST, 8 March 2016

The fatal shooting of Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum, one of the armed protesters who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon in January, was 'justified and necessary,' a county prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Finicum was shot and killed by Oregon State Police on January 26 after he tried to flee a traffic stop on a snow-covered roadside during the armed occupation by lands rights protesters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Relatives of Finicum, 54, a spokesman for the group that seized buildings at the refuge, insist he was not armed when he was killed.

However, Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson said a loaded 9mm handgun was found in the pocket of Finicum's jacket following the shooting.

Sun columnist Katie Hopkins calls for ‘euthanasia vans’ as Britain has ‘far too many old people’

Media personality Katie Hopkins claims the UK has “far too many old people” and says she would be “super keen on euthanasia vans” to eradicate the problem.

The controversial Sun columnist, who only recently apologized for the language in her inflammatory piece which referred to immigrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean as “cockroaches,” said it was “ridiculous” that animals could be put to sleep, “but not people.”

In an interview with the Radio Times, she argued although medical science allowed people to live longer, that didn’t necessarily mean it was the right path to choose.

How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.—Bob Dylan, “Hurricane”

Justice in America is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Just ask Jeffrey Deskovic, who spent 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit. Despite the fact that Deskovic’s DNA did not match what was found at the murder scene, he was singled out by police as a suspect because he wept at the victim’s funeral (he was 16 years old at the time), then badgered over the course of two months into confessing his guilt. He was eventually paid $6.5 million in reparation.
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Newly acquired documents show that over a two-year period, Massachusetts SWAT teams were mostly deployed to serve warrants and arrests for minor drug offenses, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Nine hundred pages of documents show how SWAT teams are being routinely deployed to carry out tasks that were previously considered ordinary police work, according to the ACLU of Massachusetts.

"The single-most reason for deployment wasn't for public safety concerns, but for drug offenses," Jessie Rossman, staff attorney with the ACLU, told the Boston Globe.

By Nick Gass -- At first, one was the loneliest number for Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Monday.

Just one Iowan showed up at 2 p.m. campaign stop Monday at a restaurant in the unincorporated community of Hamlin, population 300, according to a report from The Des Moines Register — Peggy Toft, an insurance agent who chairs the county’s Republican Party.

“We didn’t have a lot of notice that he was going to be there,” Toft said in a telephone interview with POLITICO, explaining the low turnout.

But even she would not endorse Santorum outright.

The Audubon County Republican chair said that she is “leaning” toward supporting Santorum but has not yet made a decision about whom she would support in the caucus.

IRS admits its computer systems were HACKED and thieves stole private information of more than 100,000 taxpayers

By Associated Press and David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
26 May 2015

Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday.

The compromised data included tax returns and other tax information on file with the IRS.

The IRS said the thieves accessed a system called 'Get Transcript,' which was set up in order to give taxpayers a way to retrieve their own filing history.

In order to access the information, the thieves cleared a security screen that required knowledge about the taxpayer, including Social Security number, date of birth, tax filing status and street address.

Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a simple question: Does the government represent the people?

Their study took data from nearly 2000 public opinion surveys and compared it to the policies that ended up becoming law. In other words, they compared what the public wanted to what the government actually did. What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of 90% of Americans has essentially no impact at all.

This video gives a quick rundown of their findings — it all boils down to one simple graph:

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It's a simple bill, located at this link: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_Status/billText.aspx?sy=2018&id=1090&txtFormat=html
I emailed the five sponsors with research showing roadblocks don't work. I'm sure they already know a lot of this, but maybe there is something new they have not seen. I also emailed all 18 members of the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/15/exclusive-rand-paul-is-our-military-budget-too-small-or-is-our-mission-too-large/
Quick everybody to the comment section, I think all of the warmonger bots are trying to influence the Russian election..

https://www.bitchute.com/video/CltltfMyrCCd/
(VIDEO - SPKOUT/BitChute is an alternative to YouTube)
Video Friday, February 16, 2018 Ron Paul and Chris Rossini
If the creation of new money affected everyone evenly, there would be no point in government granting monopoly privileges to a central bank. It's precisely because some benefit at the expense of others, that monetary inflation is so...

https://www.bitchute.com/video/lzq2YdE4BuGB/
(VIDEO - SPKOUT/BitChute is an alternative to YouTube)
Video Thursday, February 15, 2018 Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams
President Trump is reportedly in favor of a big 25 cent per gallon federal gasoline tax increase to help pay for his infrastructure plan.
Does it make any sense? Who will pay the most?...

General News & Politics

Ed Gillespie, who has been at the forefront of GOP politics for decades, said he wouldn’t encourage others to run for office in his first interview since losing the heated Virginia governor’s race last month.
During an 80-minute appearance on “The Axe Files” podcast with Democratic strategist David Axelrod, Gillespie lamented polarization in politics, the challenges of running with Donald...

Mass shooting hysteria and the death of John Crawford
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/09/25/mass-shooting-hysteria-and-the-death-of-john-crawford/
By Radley Balko September 25 at 1:36 PM
The video below shows the last moments of John Crawford, the Ohio man shot and killed by police in a Wal-Mart last month while he was holding an air rifle. (Editor’s note: The video...

James Damore just filed a class action lawsuit against Google, saying it discriminates against white male conservatives
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/james-damore-just-filed-a-class-action-lawsuit-against-google-saying-it-discriminates-against-white-male-conservatives/
James Damore's original complaint was whistleblowing against what he perceived to be a hostile work environment. In...

McMaster called on Saturday for more forceful action to halt Iran’s development of what he said was an increasingly powerful network of proxy armies in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq.
U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Saturday that, despite denials, public reports showed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons
McMaster accused Iran of escalating a...

Sad, sad, sad.
A gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, officials there said. According to local news reports, at least 20 people were injured. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting suspect, who fled the scene, has been taken into custody. Follow below for the latest updates.
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At least 20 students were feared hurt...

Despite President Donald Trump’s previously stated opposition to ObamaCare’s insurance-company bailouts, the federal budget he recently proposed actually reinstates these supposedly temporary bailouts and even asks for them to become a permanent entitlement.
Trump proposes spending $11.5 billion to pay back claims under the healthcare law’s risk-corridor program, whereby insurers who suffer ...

https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-argument-open-borders?utm_content=60652851&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
What can be done to spread freedom around the world? One answer is to make different governments compete for citizens. States with private property protections, low taxes, and something like the rule of law are more attractive places to live than places that lack...

I don't know whether it was planned from the beginning, but I just saw an ad from ancestry.com that reeks the stench of progressivism.
It speaks of the US Olympic hockey team, how they were the world champion amateurs. Then the money shot - how those boys came from "everywhere". DNA testing revealed they were Jews, Iranian, and so on down what I suspect was a very carefully contrived list.
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